I'm trying to count all letters in a txt file then display in descending order

Question

As the title says:

So far this is where I\'m at my code does work however I am having trouble displaying the information in order. Currently it just displays the inf

Answer 1

You can sort your dictionary at the time you print, with the sorted method:

lettercount = {}
invalid = "‘'`,.?!:;-_\n—' '"
infile = open('text.file')
for c in infile.read().lower():
    if c not in invalid:
        lettercount[c] = lettercount.setdefault(c,0) + 1
for letter in sorted(lettercount):
    print("{} appears {} times".format(letter,lettercount[letter]))

Rmq: I used setdefault change method to set the default value to 0 when we meet a letter for the first time